It’s easier not to look. Seeing someone else targeted, abused, tortured, killed – it’s easier to look away. It’s easier to not even think about it.
Dismiss it. Don’t get drawn in.
If you get involved it might be you next.
If you don’t get involved … It might be you next.
Incel (a portmanteau of “involuntary celibate”) is a term associated with an online subculture of people (mostly white, male and heterosexual) who define themselves as unable to find a romantic or sexual partner despite desiring one, and blame, objectify and denigrate women and girls as a result.
[Def: TERF = trans-exclusionary radical feminist.
Originally used to distinguish transgender-inclusive feminists from a group of radical feminists who reject the position that trans women are women, reject the inclusion of trans women in women’s spaces, and oppose transgender rights legislation.
A simple child, that lightly draws its breath,
And feels its life in every limb,
What should it know of death?
William Wordsworth, 1798
In 2020 and 2021, firearms were involved in the deaths of more children ages 1-17 than any other type of injury or illness, surpassing deaths due to motorvehicles: New York Times, Dec 2023.
Article II of the Genocide Convention contains a definition of the crime of genocide, which includes two elements:
A mental element:
the “intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such”;
and
A physical element, which includes the following five acts, enumerated exhaustively:
– Killing members of the group
– Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group
– Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part
– Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group
– Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group
(Just to let you know you are a loser)
Four in 10 children aged 8-17 (39%) have experienced bullying, either on or offline. Among these children, the bullying was more likely to happen on a device (84%).
In the UK Suicide was the second leading cause of death among individuals between the ages of 10-14 and 25-34
“You can’t say that no more!”
The decline of privilege for the Pale Male & Stale.
The new victims.
The root of misogyny is in conflicting feelings based on the existential dependence on women for procreation, and men’s fear of women’s power over them in their times of male weakness contrasted against the deep seated needs of men for the love, care and comfort of women — a need that makes the men feel vulnerable
(Gilmore, David D. (2001). Misogyny: The Male Malady. University ofPennsylvania Press. pp. 1–16)
“Protest is allowed,” he said. “Protest is part of our democratic process. But protest needs to be within certain bounds. Protest does not involve chucking cement towards me, or even stones.
(Nigel Farage June 2024)
The Second Amendment (1791)of the US Constitution states that A well-regulated Militia being necessary to the security of a free State the right of the people to keep and bear Arms shall not be infringed.
Chants of “Fuck Joe Biden” began during sporting events in early 2021. During a televised interview with the Sparks 300 race winner Brandon Brown in Talladega, Alabama, reporter Kelli Stavast incorrectly described the chant in the background as “Let’s Go Brandon”, which sparked the meme
Lee Miller a women who had been raped at age 7, had naked photographs taken of her as a child (by her father), then used and abused by the fashion industry and objectified by the art world.
To be among the first to walk into and witness the atrocities of Dachau and Buchenwald.
How can anyone wash that away.
(*one of the most famous images of Lee Miller, naked in Hitlers bathtub, with the filth from the concentration camps was taken by a man, David Scherman)
(Artist statement:
This work is based on my own attempt to understand and visually express what is happening in the world today.
The exhibition finishes with a reference to Lee Miller, a photographer and artist that stimulated this work.
You’ll never wash it away Lee Miller (2024) was intended to try to convey the images and experiences that she must have seen and had to live with.
We are daily bombarded with horrific images through various media. Unchecked information, biased news, fake platforms expressing uncensored opinions. Amplification of intolerance and hatred.
We haven’t learned from the atrocities of war.
Miller exposed the horrors of World War 2 but since then we have seen it happen again and again.
Iraq, Bosnia, Rwanda, Kosovo, Darfur, Syria, Ukraine, Israel, Gaza…
It goes on and on.
Maybe if it isn’t here it doesn’t affect us. But it does. It isn’t distant. Its everywhere.
The rise of the right wing, the intolerance of diversity and divergence. Hate speech. Bullying. Trolling.
Nationalism.
Caused by the protagonists, but the solution may be with the rest of us.
Residing in denial. Our indifference.
In the comfort of ignorance.
Nick Inston. 2024
@nick_inston
“Photography is a small voice, at best, but sometimes – just sometimes – one photograph or a group of them can lure our senses to awareness”
W. Eugene Smith (1918-1978)
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